Kaos GL announces the open call of Ankara Queer Art Program - Artist Residency’s 2022 edition to host visual artists whose practice explores intersecting particularities of artistic expression and queer politics. From Turkey and abroad each artist in residence will be hosted for a duration of 8 weeks in Ankara. Kaos GL’s Ankara Queer Art Program - Artist Residency provides a stipend for living expenses, covers the expenses of round trip travel, accommodation, and costs considered required for the materials of possible production. According to their research themes and interests Kaos GL supports artists in residence by facilitating access to art institutions, initiatives and archives, and programmes meetings with artists, activists, scholars and curators in Turkey to provide a ground for the exchange of ideas.
Launched in February 2020 Ankara Queer Art Program, Artist Residency has held on through the uncertainties of the global pandemic. In dialogue with the community of the Ankara Queer Art Program the structure was rethought and reshaped due to the travel bans, public health necessities, as well as newly defined contemporary fragilities of queer artists.
Established in Ankara, Turkey, Kaos GL Association works to eliminate discrimination on the basis of language, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, philosophical conviction, religion, and locality that are faced by LGBTI+s. Producing political critique and interventions, conducting educational programmes, organising exhibitions and carrying out publishing activities, Kaos GL has been contributing to the development of the political, cultural and artistic infrastructure in Ankara and in Turkey at large since 1994.
